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A comment on Congress: Stop Trying to Limit EFF’s Ability to Challenge Patents. Parent comment

Re:Congress: Stop Trying to Limit EFF’s Ability to Challenge... by wmeredith on Friday April 24, 2015 @11:25AM (#9433972)
It's not insider trading, because the person challenging the patent is not an insider. It is, however, market manipulation and it is illegal in the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_manipulation
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Re:Congress: Stop Trying to Limit EFF’s Ability to Challenge... by tedunangst on Friday April 24, 2015 @03:56PM (#9435665)
It's funny that page lists "bear raid" as an example. That's basically how shorting is done. You short a stock, then you tell the world why as loudly as possible.
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